(A) contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration. It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2. Time is frequently of the essence of contracts and crimes, and sometimes it is altogether immaterial. 3. Lapse of time alone is often presumptive evidence of facts which are otherwise unknown; an uninterrupted … [Read more...] about TIME
TIMELY NOTICE
Notice given within a reasonable time to give prior warning to the other party or notice given within the time prescribed by statute. … [Read more...] about TIMELY NOTICE
TIMBER TREES
According to Blackstone, oak, ash, elm, and such other trees as are commonly used for building, are considered timber. 2 Comm. 28. But it has been contended, arguendo, that to make it timber, the trees must be felled and severed from the stock. … [Read more...] about TIMBER TREES
TIMOCRACY
An aristocracy of property; government by men of property who are possessed of a certain income. Timores vanI sunt sestimandi qui non cadnnt in constantem virnm. 7 Coke, 17. Fears which do not assail a resolute man are to be accounted vain. … [Read more...] about TIMOCRACY
TINBOUNDING
is a custom regulating the manner in which tin is obtained from waste land, or land which has formerly been waste land, within certain districts in Cornwall and Devon. x The custom is described in the leading case on the subject as follows: "Any person may enter on the waste land of another, and may mark out by four corner boundaries a certain area. A written description of the … [Read more...] about TINBOUNDING